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Pickled Pork

This recipe uses saltpetre, which should be handled with care.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pickled Pork

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the bone from the pork pieces if possible.

  2. Ensure your pickling tub is clean and sound.

  3. Rub each piece of pork thoroughly with saltpetre.

  4. Mix one part coarse sea salt with two parts common salt.

  5. Cover the pork pieces completely with the salt mixture.

  6. Pack the meat tightly in the tub and keep the sides filled with salt.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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